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I flipped two handfuls of the middle finger at them.
“I’m just glad you finally woke up and are making an attempt with Chloe,” Trick said, patting my shoulder in approval as he sat next to me and reached for a glass of water. After taking a drink, he set the cup down and let out a quenched sigh before adding, “Guess this means I can stop pretending to cockblock you from every other woman out there now.”
I tilted my head and frowned at him, confused. “What do you mean, pretend?”
“Hmm?” He glanced toward me with raised eyebrows.
“I said…” My voice grew a little harder. “What the fuck do you mean bypretend? Have younotslept with all those women you said you have?”
Because it happened every couple of months…
I would mention my interest in someone, and Trick would say he’d already been with her, which would successfully make me lose said interest. And then…
Holy shit. He’d been lying all this time. He’d been lying to keep me from pursuing them instead.
“Dude…” he said, sending me a mistrustful glance. “Are you serious? That’s a lot of women. Of course, I didn’t sleep with any of them.”
“Wait.Noneof them?!” I cried, my mouth falling open. “Then why did you say youhad?”
“Because it hurt my sister to watch you shuffle through date after date after date,” he told me as if I should already know this. “And I was tired of watching you break her heart time and time again.”
“So you knew?” I persisted. “All these years?”
Chloe had said he’d known at the beginning of her crush, but to think that he’d known for longer than just a couple of months or so… That got under my skin. It would’ve been one thing for him not to tell me if he thought she merely had a passing fancy that she’d gotten over, but to keep on keeping it from me after this long while hestillassumed she had feelings… I felt betrayed.
“Youknewhow she felt about me foryears?”
He rolled his eyes. “She’s been over the moon for you since high school. How could I not know?”
When he laughed and shrugged as if all this should be obvious to me, I saw red. Balling my hand into a fist, I wound my arm back and hit him as hard as I could.
Trick didn’t see it coming, and he went toppling out of his chair where he landed against Parker, who’d been sitting on the other side of him and reaching for a bowl of chips.
“You son of a bitch,” I roared, standing up so fast that I knocked my chair over backward behind me.
Everyone else exploded from their seats just as quickly, most of them shouting at me to stop.
So when I reached forward to drag a sprawled and dazed Trick off Parker, what felt like twenty pairs of hands caught me and jerked me back, preventing me from pulverizing him again.
“Easy,” Julian said in my ear, and then JB was at my side, dragging me even further away.
“What the hell, Luke?”
“Let me go,” I told them, struggling to break free. “I just want to kill him.”
“Yeah, we’ve all wanted to kill Trick at one point or another,” Julian commiserated. “But we don’t actually act on that. Now…behave.”
“Fine!” I snapped, shrugging them off. “Just let me the fuck go…”
They finally released their grips, and I didn’t surge forward to strangle Chloe’s little brother like I wanted to. I stood there, trying to get my labored breathing back under control as I watched him finally straighten and stand to wipe blood from a fresh cut on his lip.
“Christ, Luke,” he told me, shaking his head and orienting himself. “It wasn’tthatbig of a deal. You should be fucking thanking me.”
“Thankingyou?” I exploded. “I should give you a damn black eye to go with that fat lip, you son of a bitch. You should’ve told me how she felt. Why didn’t you tell me? Why did no one fucking tell me?”
But when I glanced accusingly at the others, they glanced at each other and shrugged.
“We honestly thought she hated you, man,” Gray finally said.
